User blog:Sweetangel823/Announcement: AKB0048 SC0126 Senbatsu Sousenkyo

When the music suddenly cut out in the middle of a performance of #Sukinanda - a song Sasshi had been wanting to center again for a while now (she honestly should just start expecting to get interrupted if she ever saw herself as center on a setlist for a song that wasn't performed all that often), and the lights had gone dark as well. After a brief confusion in darkness, the lights went up in the theater as well, and Motomiya Hikari had now taken the stage.

"Good evening, everyone", she spoke, holding a folder in the hand that wasn't occupied by a microphone. "For those who don't know, I am AKB0048's manager and producer, and you normally only see me when there is a bigger announcement to be made, which rings true for today as well."

She paused. "You see, AKB0048 will hold this year's Senbatsu Sousenkyo in a month. The voting period starts on May 21st, and continues until June 23rd. Preliminary results will be revealed on June 11th, and the final concert where the results will be revealed is on June 24th. Any other information you may need regarding this will be posted on AKB0048's official website momentarily."

She smiled, and took a slight bow. "With that, I thank you all for supporting AKB0048 and its members, and bid you all farewell." She started heading off the stage, but paused. "Oh, and you're welcome, Sasshi."

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I know this was pretty delayed, but I do believe I found a time that should work for most people~

So, the information that can be gleaned from the text above in short form:

Voting period: May 21st to June 23rd

Preliminaries: June 11th

Result announcement concert: June 24th

And for everyone who have never participated in a Senbatsu Sousenkyo here:


 * It is entirely activity based. All activity a character gets during the voting period (replies to threads, edits to their character page, etc) garners points.


 * Writing a Character Song does also garner points - one per member.


 * Making a Sousenkyo Poster does also garner points - one per member.


 * A header for those posters have been created, which can be provided upon request.


 * These points are what determines each individual characters' rank and their vote count~